Elizabeth Hernandez is a Denver Post reporter covering breaking news and a little bit of everything else, too. A former education reporter at both The Post and Boulder Daily Camera, Elizabeth is passionate about using her platform to tell the stories of underrepresented Coloradans in an accurate, compassionate, engaging manner. She started at The Denver Post as an intern in 2014 and just kept coming to work until they hired her.

Denver is on track for one of its biggest elections in years as 66 candidates run for 15 elected positions in city government. But a few challengers have pulled away from the pack, a Denver Post analysis shows.